Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite includes an extensive legal
vocabulary and other features designed to increase productivity for
legal professionals. Lawyers, judges, paralegals, legal secretaries and
others in the legal profession can create briefs, time and billing
records, correspondence, e-mail, and other documents. Users can dictate
directly into most applications, including Microsoft Word and Corel
WordPerfect Legal Suite, as well as custom legal applications. People
who need to dictate on the move can use the Dragon NaturallyMobile
pocket-sized digital recorder to create documents almost anywhere.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite Version 4.0 incorporates
significant advancements, including a dramatically increased active
vocabulary size, significantly reduced training time, speech commands
for the Internet, and the ability to take advantage of new instructions
for enhanced performance on both the Intel Pentium III and the new AMD Athlon processors.

"Time is money. Legal professionals can save hours a day and
reduce their transcription costs by using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal
Suite to transcribe their speech into a PC," said Roger Matus, vice
president of North American Marketing for Dragon Systems. "Version
4.0's increased vocabulary size and reduced training time make the
software even more accurate and easier for legal professionals to
use."

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite's extensive legal
vocabulary was compiled from an extensive collection of legal reports,
journal articles and other legal text. Thousands of carefully chosen
legal terms, abbreviations and more were added to the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking standard vocabulary with spelling, pronunciation and
language usage information. Language usage information provides
information on how each word is used in context in order to increase the
accuracy of the system.

Legal professionals can also customize the system using the
extensive macro capability. Simple macros allow users to easily create
boilerplate text that can be inserted when the user issues a command
phrase, such as "enter client billing history." More
sophisticated macros allow users to enter text, retrieve information
from other applications, and place text into other applications. These
sophisticated macros can be created using a basic-like programming
language.

Other features in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite include
direct dictation into most Windows applications, with hands-free editing
and formatting within Corel WordPerfect Version 8 or 9 and Microsoft
Word 97 or 2000.

--Extensive Legal Vocabulary -- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal
Suite features a 250,000-word vocabulary containing not only an
extensive collection of legal terms, phrases and abbreviations, but also
the context of those terms as used within typical legal documents. This
specialized vocabulary helps legal professionals achieve higher accuracy
more quickly, reducing the effort required to adapt the software for use
in highly specialized legal applications.

--Breakthrough in Vocabulary Size -- The active vocabulary
(vocabulary stored in memory) has been doubled to over 160,000 words in
Version 4 for U.S. English without significantly increasing memory
requirements. This is more than double the largest active vocabulary
available in the industry to date. This breakthrough means that users
are much more likely to get the correct word when they dictate. The
total vocabulary size is 250,000, the largest in the industry, and is
completely customizable.

--Incremental Vocabulary Builder -- Vocabulary Builder allows for
personalization of an existing vocabulary. Users can personalize their
vocabulary, which will help improve their speech efficiency and accuracy
rates. Vocabulary Builder not only automatically adds the words that a
user normally uses to the active vocabulary, it also teaches the system
about his or her writing style.

--Improved BestMatch III for Even Higher Accuracy -- Improved
BestMatch III technology takes full advantage of high-end processors
such as the Intel Pentium III and the AMD Athlon to achieve the highest
level of accuracy Dragon Systems has ever offered. Best Match III
requires a computer with a processor speed of 450 MHz or higher.

--Accurate Continuous Speech Recognition -- Users dictate text
naturally and continuously at rates of up to 160 words per minute and
more, without the need to pause between words. As users speak into the
microphone, words appear immediately on the screen and in their
documents with every word spelled correctly. Easy-to-use, intuitive
commands allow users to edit and format their text quickly and
efficiently by voice. Independent studies report Dragon
NaturallySpeaking accuracy to be between 95% and 99%.

--Multiple User Support -- More than one user may create voice
files and store them on the same computer.

--Speech Playback -- Recorded speech playback allows users to hear
their words repeated for easier proofreading and editing. Users can have
the words that appear on the screen read aloud to them using high
quality Text-to-Speech from ELAN Informatique.

--Works in Virtually Any Windows Environment -- Users can just
point their mouse and click in an application. Their text automatically
appears in the text window where the cursor is. The product works well
with Microsoft Word 97/2000, Corel WordPerfect Version 8 or 9, Lotus
Notes, Microsoft Wordpad, Microsoft Chat 2.1 and 2.5, and many more.

--Command & Control Windows Applications by Voice -- Users can
quickly and easily control the Windows desktop by voice. Users can now
execute commands, such as "Start AOL Instant Messenger," and
"Switch to WordPerfect," by voice.

--Web-browsing by Voice -- Speech-enabled Internet capability
allows users to navigate the Internet, using Microsoft Internet
Explorer, by voice. This feature provides a faster and more effective
way for users to open links and participate in chat rooms on the web.

--Reduced Training Time -- Dragon NaturallySpeaking learns to
recognize users' voices in about five minutes, so users can get up
and running quickly and easily. (Requires a computer with a processor of
300 MHz or higher and at least 64 MB of system memory (RAM).)

--High-quality Noise-Canceling Microphone -- A high-quality
noise-canceling microphone, which has been optimized for speech
recognition, is included.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite supports a broad range of
built-in audio and industry standard sound cards, including Creative
Labs Soundblaster 16 and compatibles, as well as notebooks with built-in
16-bit audio. Proprietary speech cards are not required for either
desktops or portables. Dragon Systems recommends using only
Dragon-certified hardware, as listed in the Technical Support section of
its Web site (http://www.dragonsys.com). Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal
Suite is available through Dragon's VAR channel at a suggested list
price of $995. The Dragon NaturallyMobile Recorder Option Kit is
available for an additional $199.

About Dragon Systems, Inc.

Dragon Systems, Inc., develops and markets speech and language
technology that, in multiple world languages (including American
English, Australian English, British English, SE Asian English, Indian
English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese), enable
users to create text, issue commands, enter and access data simply by
speaking. The company also licenses technology worldwide through
developers, distributors, resellers, Original Equipment Manufacturers
and Integrated Software Vendors. Dragon Systems ports its technology
across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms -- from
hand-held devices and PCs to workstations, and is pursuing research and
development projects for computer and telecommunications applications.
Since introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the first large vocabulary
continuous speech recognition system able to create general purpose
text, in 1997, the company has received over 100 major industry awards
worldwide.

Founded in 1982, Dragon Systems has its headquarters in Newton,
Massachusetts. It has European subsidiaries in Munich, Paris and in
Marlow near London, and additional research laboratories in Cheltenham,
England (Dragon Systems GmbH, Dragon Systems France S.A.R.L., Dragon
Systems SA, Dragon Systems UK Ltd, and Dragon Systems UK Research &
Development Ltd, respectively). Dragon Systems also has a subsidiary in
Tokyo, Japan. Dragon Systems can be found on the World Wide Web at:
www.dragonsys.com.

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